: commonly found or seen : ordinary, unremarkable
a commonplace occurrence
the large mergers that had become commonplace
Computers are commonplace in classrooms.
commonplaceness
noun
com·mon·place
ˈkä-mən-ˌplās 
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Adjective
Drug use has become commonplace at rock concerts.
He photographed commonplace objects like lamps and bowls.
Noun
It is a commonplace that we only use a small part of our brain's capacity.
We now accept cell phones and laptop computers as commonplaces of everyday life.
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New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
This list would have likely been much longer if Pryor’s collegiate career had not been cut short due to NCAA rule violations (over conduct that is now commonplace in the NCAA).
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s.
—William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
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Adjective
This fork design was commonplace on pre-1930s bikes.
—New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
This list would have likely been much longer if Pryor’s collegiate career had not been cut short due to NCAA rule violations (over conduct that is now commonplace in the NCAA).
—Joe Sabin, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966.
—Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s.
—William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
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“Commonplace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonplace. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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commonplace
1 of 2 noun
com·mon·place
ˈkäm-ən-ˌplās
: something that is often seen, heard, or met with
commonplace
2 of 2 adjective
: very common or ordinary
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